Baufra

Baufra in hieroglyphs
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Bau-f-Râ
B3.w-f-Rʾ
Re is his glory[1]
Papyrus Westcar, column 4.18
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Ba-ef-Rê
B3-f-Rʾ
Re is his glory[1]
Wadi Hammamat, cartouche name no.5

Baufra /bɑːfrɑː/ (also read as Bauefre and Ra-bau-ef) is the name of an alleged son of the ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) Khufu from the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. He is known from a story in the Papyrus Westcar and from a rock inscription at Wadi Hammamat. He is neither contemporarily nor archaeologically attested, which makes his historical figure disputable to scholars up to this day.

  1. ^ a b Hermann Ranke, Anneliese Biedenkopf-Ziehner: Die ägyptischen Personennamen. J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt 1935, page 89.

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